Who Works Where

The post-election media merry-go-round is upon us. Every four years, as outlets take stock of their newsrooms and draft their strategies for covering the new administration, they also cast a wandering eye around the industry, snapping up talents who have distinguished themselves over the course of the campaign.

The game of musical desks began before voters even went to the polls, as CNN poached Andrew Kaczynski and his KFILE team from BuzzFeed. McKay Coppins and Rosie Gray also departed Ben Smith’s shop, with both headed to The Atlantic, where new Editor in Chief Jeffrey Goldberg has been busy. Goldberg added Franklin Foer (mostly recently of Slate and, before that, editor of The New Republic) and Julia Ioffe (Politico) to his stable of writers.

Meanwhile, The New York Times tapped CBS News’ Sopan Deb and brought over Glenn Thrush, who joins a veritable Politico alumni association at the Grey Lady. Additionally, Salena Zito, one of the few reporters who saw Trump’s success coming, landed a regular gig with The Washington Examiner. Other journalists are sure to be on the move in the days ahead.

While not every journalist job jump is directly tied to the election, this is the season for shakeups, and we’ll be tracking industry moves through the end of the year, updating this page regularly. If you know of a media member switching outlets who isn’t listed here, drop us a tip at editors@cjr.org.

Here’s a breakdown of who’s switching desks, and where they’re each headed (last updated 12/23).

JOURNALIST

LEFT

FOR

Andrew Kaczynski

BuzzFeed

CNN

Anthony Cormier

The Tampa Bay Times

BuzzFeed

Ashley Parker

The New York Times

The Washington Post

Barry Bagnato

CBS Radio

unknown

Bill Whitney

CBS Radio

unknown

Billy Sorrentino

Wired

Apple

Bruce Perlmutter

BuzzFeed

Conde Nast Entertainment

Carla Sosenko

Time Out New York

Entertainment Weekly

Casey Neistat

Beme

CNN

Charles Kaye

CBS Radio

unknown

Christopher Massie

BuzzFeed

CNN

David Freeman

The Huffington Post

NBC News

Deborah Needleman

T Magazine

unknown

Eben Shapiro

The Wall Street Journal

Time Magazine

Ellen Pollock

Bloomberg Businessweek

unknown

Franklin Foer

Slate, The New Republic

The Atlantic

Gilad Lotan

Betaworks

BuzzFeed

Glenn Thrush

Politico

The New York Times

Harley Carnes

CBS Radio

unknown

Jim Tankersley

The Washington Post

Vox

Joe Nocera

The New York Times

Bloomberg View

Josh Dawsey

The Wall Street Journal

Politico

Juleyka Lantigua-Williams

The Atlantic

NPR

Julia Ioffe

Politico

The Atlantic

Julie Hansen

Business Insider

[unnamed startup]

Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke

The New York Observer

Women’s Wear Daily

Kate Kelly

CNBC

The New York Times

Ken Wheaton

Advertising Age

unknown

Kia Kokalitcheva

Fortune

Axios

Kim Hart

The Federal Communications Commission

Axios

Kristin Roberts

Politico

McClatchy

Kyle Blaine

BuzzFeed

CNN

Lydia Polgreen

The New York Times

The Huffington Post

Matt Rosoff

Business Insider

CNBC

McKay Coppins

BuzzFeed

The Atlantic

Michael Luo

The New York Times

The New Yorker

Monica Crowley

Fox News

National Security Council (non-journalism)

Nancy Youssef

The Daily Beast

BuzzFeed

Nathan McDermott

BuzzFeed

CNN

Neil King

The Wall Street Journal

Fusion GPS (non-journalism)

Nikki Finke

Was on hiatus

Mediaite

Paul Volpe

The New York Times

Politico

Prachi Gupta

Cosmopolitan

Jezebel

Rana Foroohar

Time Magazine

Financial Times

Robert Wolf

Democratic fundraiser/ Obama + Hillary advisor

Fox News

Rosie Gray

BuzzFeed

The Atlantic

Robin Gradison

ABC News

NBC News

Salena Zito

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

The Washington Examiner

Sara Fischer

The Washington Post

Axios

Sarah Mimms

Countable

BuzzFeed

Scot Gillespie

W. W. Grainger

The Washington Post

Sopan Deb

CBS

The New York Times

Stephen Mooallem

Harper’s BAZAAR

The Village Voice

Sudeep Reddy

The Wall Street Journal

Politico

Teddy Lynn

Ogilvy & Mather

Bloomberg Media

Tess Townsend

Inc.

Recode

Theo Balcomb

NPR

The New York Times

Tim Alberta

National Review

Politico

Tim Taliaferro

Texas Exes

Texas Monthly

Valerie Lapinski

Guardian US

Vox

Will Sommer

Washington City Paper

The Hill

Zoe Tillman

The National Law Journal/Legal Times

BuzzFeed

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Carlett Spike and Pete Vernon are the authors of this piece. Spike is a CJR contributor and Vernon is a CJR Delacorte Fellow.